Opening Doors Understanding College Reading

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CONNECT READING provides a personalized learning plan for each student, continually developed and refined as students achieve mastery. Each student plan is created through an individualized diagnostic that evaluates skills from 7th-grade level through college-readiness, for second-language learners, international students, adult students, and traditional high-schoolers. Offered completely online, CONNECT READING can be used in conjunction with NEW WORLDS or OPENING DOORS, which provide a printed experience that teaches critical reading skills through close reading of anthologized chapters from best-selling undergraduate texts in Psychology, Sociology, Business, and more.

* - New reading selections for this edition

To the Instructor: Getting Started in Opening Doors

To the Student

PART ONE: ORIENTATION: PREPARING AND ORGANIZING YOURSELF FOR SUCCESS IN COLLEGE

CHAPTER ONE: MAKING YOURSELF SUCCESSFUL IN COLLEGE

Skills

Doing What Successful Students Do

Motivating Yourself

Setting Your Goals

Identifying How You Prefer to Learn

Mananging Your Time

Setting Up a Weekly Study Schedule

Making the Most of Your Study Time

Planning Further Ahead: Creating a Monthly Assignment Calendar and Using a Daily To Do List

Creating Your Summary: Developing Chapter Review Cards

Readings

*Selection 1-1 “Why Go to College" from P.O.W.E.R. Learning: Strategies for Success in College and Life by Robert S. Feldman (Student Success)

*Selection 1-2 “Getting Ready for Prime Time: Learning the Skills Needed to Succeed Today and Tomorrow” from Understanding Business by William Nickels, James McHugh, and Susan McHugh(Business)

*Selection 1-3 “Saved” from The Autobiography of Malcom X, as told to Alex Haley (Literature)

CHAPTER TWO: APPROACHING COLLEGE READING AND DEVELOPING A COLLEGE-LEVEL VOCABULARY